The Insight of the Week 4/23-4/30 “Future of CIO 2020

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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6700+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight of digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Orchestrate an Extensive and Real-time Digital Organization The digital organization is a dynamic system which needs to continue evolving and adapting, explicitly seeks to orchestrate a creative environment in which people can grow and innovate; businesses focus on long-term and holistic perspective, become highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, enable dynamic resources allocation, adapt to change promptly, grasp opportunities timely, and prevent risks effectively. Here are five aspects to orchestrate an extensive and real-time digital organization.

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Corporate Board GRC Practices Apr. 2020 Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Inquisitiveness Officer” Apr. 2020 This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing is that CIOs as the top leadership role must have a strong mindset, a unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet creative enough to not hold the company back from growth. Regardless of which personality they have, digital CIOs need to be both transformational and situational, innovative and tactical, business savvy and technology insightful, communication-effective, and operation-efficient.

Applying a Different Kind of Rationality to Manage Business Complexity One significant effect of today’s digital economy is increased velocity, complexity, unpredictability, and a need for a faster response to changes in businesses. Digital management is multidimensional. There are different kinds of rationality that apply to different dimensions of corporate management. There is physical or technical rationality. There is emotional or psychological rationality, and there is mental or spiritual rationality, just to name a few. Each arena has its own rules and norms. Organizational leaders today should take a holistic view and structural approach to manage business complexity and improve organizational maturity.

The Monthly Communication Brief: Communication Competency Apr. 2020 The great communicators are the high-quality leaders or professionals who can communicate objectively with strong logic, clarity, and understanding; the great communicators are the great artists who are fluent in creative expression or metaphorical description. Communication is both art and science. How to set principles and develop practices to improve communication effectiveness and build communication competency?

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